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Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????



On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:52:43 +1000
"Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:38:06PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:20:07 -0700
> > "Randolph Chung" <tausq@debian.org> wrote:
> > > no, it means you split up the string into individual parts separated
> > > by the non-digit characters (. - etc)
> > > 
> > 
> > Arghhh... It doesnt understand real numbers, only integers.
> 
> It can't use real numbers anyway. Otherwise, how would it compare:
> 
> 1.02.4-5.6 and 1.1.3-3.1
> 
> So real numbers are out of the question. The alternative would be some
> kind of alphanumeric sorting so 02 comes before 1.
>

It should be broken down at each decimal point, and the decimal point
retained 

i.e. 1.02.4 brakes down to compare in order 1, 0.02, 0.4



Glenn

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